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ENGL 1270 Reading Monsters ENGLISH (ENGL) 3 credit hours Students examine the monstrous in literary imaginations and the NOTE: A PASSING GRADE IN A 1000-LEVEL ENGLISH COURSE IS marginal spaces – cultural, religious, political, racial, gendered – NORMALLY REQUIRED FOR ENTRANCE INTO 2000-LEVEL ENGLISH monsters inhabit. Students read texts in a range of historical contexts COURSES. and genres in order to consider fundamental questions about the monstrous and the human, desire and horror, and image and text. ENGL 1100 Composition 3 credit hours ENGL 1280 & the Arts Students develop the essential elements of university-level writing 3 credit hours valuable in almost every field. Engaging in a range of writing Students consider the relation between literature and other art forms with assignments, individual tutorials, and textual analysis (from a wide a view to developing active habits of reading, watching, and listening. variety of genres), students apply proper citation practices, to engage What does the translation of a poem or play into music or film teach us with the ideas of others, and to craft effective arguments. about how to practice creative interpretation in our own thinking and writing? ENGL 1205 Introduction to Literature 3 credit hours ENGL 1284 Literature and Resistance This course introduces students to works of literature in English 3 credit hours representing a variety of historical and cultural contexts. It develops the Students examine from around the world that enact forms of student’s ability to interpret written texts and to write about them in an resistance. From political revolutions to protest movements, students informed and organized manner. explore the ways in which a range of texts (fiction, , drama and film) creatively engage with issues of oppression, struggle and corruption. ENGL 1210 Literature and Travel 3 credit hours ENGL 1290 Literature and Violence Students encounter the many genres of travel writing in English, ranging 3 credit hours from early explorer’s journals to contemporary guidebooks and blogs. Students are introduced to works of literature from a variety of cultural Students examine the techniques used to turn the experiences of travel contexts and genres that engage with the dilemma of representing into literary form in relation to topics such as , migration and violence. The texts in the course explore how ethics and aesthetics colonialism. interact to comment upon the capacity of literature to depict various forms of violence in often controversial ways. ENGL 1220 Literature and Science 3 credit hours ENGL 1300 Word, Image and Power Students study the relationship between literature and scientific thought 3 credit hours and discovery. Topics include works of various genres – fiction, drama, Students examine the power of words and images, and will improve their , poetry, and film – that interact with the scientific and technological own communicative and analytic ability in writing and speaking. Topics developments of their time, from the beginning of the scientific revolution include: memorable speeches delivered by leaders worldwide, examples to the present day. from contemporary visual culture and the advertising industry, and ideas communicated across various media platforms. ENGL 1230 Literature and the Environment 3 credit hours ENGL 2205 Practical Criticism Students explore the way the environment has been imagined in creative 3 credit hours works. Surveying representative texts ranging from nature writing Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level to ecocriticism, students consider how the literary representation of This course provides an introduction to the discipline of literary criticism the environment has, and continues to, evolve with changes in the through extensive exercises in the practical criticism of selected literary environment. works. It is aimed at developing essential skills in close reading and a ENGL 1250 Literature and Law critical vocabulary with which to analyze and discuss literature, while 3 credit hours sharpening students’ attentiveness to the way in which form and content Students study the relationship between legal and literary texts. Special contribute to meaning in a literary work. emphasis is placed on the literary invocation of legal phenomena, the ENGL 2261 : Africa, the Caribbean, and South regulation of criminality, and the ways in which legal texts deploy literary Asia conventions to advance the cause of justice. 3 credit hours ENGL 1260 What Not to Wear: Reading Dress Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level 3 credit hours Students examine the various ways clothing rhetorically projects This course introduces students to postcolonial writing in English from symbolism and power. Reading from a range of historical periods and Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia. Authors to be studied may include genres, students focus on the ways texts use fashion to signal such Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, Shyam Selvadurai, Samuel Selvon, fundamental issues as national identity, social distinction, religion, Jamaica Kincaid, Kamala Das and Anita Desai. politics, and gender and the body. 2 English (ENGL)

ENGL 2262 Postcolonial Literature: Canada, Australia, and New ENGL 2310 Rethinking Rural Nova Scotia [ACST 2310,HIST 2310] Zealand 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Students assess the significance of Nova Scotia’s rural Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level by developing an understanding of their complex representations and histories. By using materials and approaches from both history and This course introduces students to postcolonial writing in English from literature, students explore the value of interdisciplinary research for Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Authors to be studied may include generating new thinking about how the past can inform the future. Eden Robinson, Sky Lee, Rudy Wiebe, Gerry Bostock, Jack Davis and Witi Ihimaera. ENGL 2311 Modern English Language [LING 2311] 3 credit hours ENGL 2301 Nineteenth Century Crime and Detective Fiction Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level The course will examine the nature of modern English semantics (meaning), syntax (‘wordings’), and morphology (word formation). Some This course considers the development of fiction of crime, mystery, attention is also paid to intonation (soundings). The course is presented and detection during the nineteenth century, a period in which this using contemporary grammatical theories. genre flourished. Authors to be studied include Mary Elizabeth Braddon, , Arthur Conan Doyle, , , E. ENGL 2312 Varieties of English A. Poe, and R. L. Stevenson. Attention may also be given to relevant 3 credit hours social developments, such as the rise of the police force, advances in Students investigate English regional and social dialects, and functional criminology and detection, the typology and psychology of the criminal, varieties adapted to different contexts and genres. Ideas about 'standard the “lady detective,” white-collar crime and criminal networks, and the English', attitudes to English varieties, attention to their historical origins, Victorian Underworld. and sources of stability and change in English will also be addressed. ENGL 2302 Twentieth Century Crime and Detective Fiction ENGL 2313 Narrative in Fiction and Film 3 credit hours 6 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level

A study of major 20th Century stories of crime, mystery, and detection. A study of a number of important works of fiction that have been Authors may include Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell successfully adapted to film. Students consider the specific properties Hammett, and Sue Grafton. that are unique to each medium and the implications (formal, thematic, social and political) involved in translating from page to screen. ENGL 2303 Fictions of Finance 3 credit hours ENGL 2314 Literary Legends: Don Juan Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level This course examines the representation of money and finance in a range of genres – including fiction, drama, poetry, and film – and from a range Students examine the mythical figure of Don Juan, the notorious seducer of literary periods. Authors to be considered include , and trickster of Seville. Students track the complex evolution of this Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Theodore Dreiser, , D. H. character through a rich medium of literary and cultural forms: drama, Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Miller, and Martin Amis. Topics to be poetry, fiction, and philosophy, music, and film. The centerpiece of the addressed include narratives of financial success and failure, gambling course is Mozart’s magnificent opera Don Giovanni. and risk, the expansion of and the stock market, lotteries and ENGL 2315 Masterpieces of (Pre-) auctions, fraud and financial crime, and hoarding and expenditure. 3 credit hours ENGL 2307 Literary Traditions in English Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level 6 credit hours An historical survey of the major works of Western civilization from Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level classical to the Renaissance. This course examines literature written in English from Old English to the ENGL 2316 Masterpieces of Western Literature (Post-Renaissance) present with the goals of developing awareness of literary history and 3 credit hours of exploring relationships between literature and its social and cultural Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level contexts. An historical survey of the major works of Western civilization from the ENGL 2308 Development of English Prose Style [LING 2308] Renaissance to the 20th century. 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level ENGL 2317 Literary Legends: Faust 3 credit hours The course offers a close study of the lexical, syntactic and rhetorical Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in English at the 1000 level choices in very short selections of prose writing from 1500 to the present. The passages will be studied in chronological order, with a view to Students examine the mythical figure of Faust, the disgruntled professor observing developments in prose style in each period. who sells his soul to the Devil (Mephistopheles) in exchange for absolute power and knowledge. The history of Faust will be explored through a variety of representations in drama, poetry, fiction, music, opera, and film. English (ENGL) 3

ENGL 2318 The Writer and Nature ENGL 2341 Introduction to Drama I 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level

Ranging from 18th century meticulous observers of the natural world Students survey the of theatre history and representative plays ranging through the Romantic poets to modern writers who envision an from and India to medieval England and Japan. Course apocalyptically threatened environment, this course seeks to trace the content covers methods of reading drama and the history of performance shifts in literary approaches to nature within different English-speaking and staging in this period, with a particular focus on the intersections traditions and to follow the changing perceptions of the place of the between theatre, ritual, religion, and politics. human being within the natural . ENGL 2342 Introduction to Drama II ENGL 2320 Writing by Women I [WMST 2320] 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level Students survey the theatre history and representative plays ranging from This course focuses on women’s literature from the to the 1500-1800. Course content covers methods of reading drama and the end of the eighteenth century. It covers a variety of literary genres and global history of performance and staging in this period, with a particular examines some of the theoretical, historical, and practical concerns focus on the intersections between performance, economics, politics, and pertaining to women’s writing. science. ENGL 2321 Writing by Women II [WMST 2321] ENGL 2343 Introduction to Drama III 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level

This course focuses on literature from the nineteenth century to the Students survey the theatre history and representative plays ranging present day. It covers a variety of literary genres and examines some of from 1800 to the present day. Course content covers methods of reading the theoretical, historical, and practical concerns pertaining to women’s drama and the global history of performance and staging in this period, writing. with a particular focus on the intersections between theatre, colonialism, ENGL 2325 The Media in Everyday Life ethics, and literary revolution. 3 credit hours ENGL 2356 The Development of Science Fiction to the New Wave Students analyze media texts, environments, and practices encountered 3 credit hours in everyday life, guided by longstanding debates about how media affects The course will explore visionary and speculative literature ranging from and reflects our imaginative conceptions of the world. early nineteenth century speculative fictions up to and including the New ENGL 2326 Language and Gender [LING 2326] Wave. Topics such as the following will be discussed: the influence of 3 credit hours the classical writers M. Shelley, J. Verne, and H.G. Wells; the importance Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level of the “pulp” magazines of the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s; Golden Age writers and writing; and the development of the New Wave movement. This course examines the role of language in forming popular perceptions ENGL 2360 The Fantastic about the position of women and men in society. The topics include a 3 credit hours comparison between English and other languages in matters of grammar, Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level vocabulary, and semantics; a comparison between modern English and earlier stages; and an enquiry into the origin of authoritarian notions This course will trace the rise of fantastic literature into a variety of of correctness. The historical role of women as users and teachers of modern cultural forms (, , graphic novel, film, gaming) language is also considered. Present-day attitudes, implementation and explore the ideologies it encodes. Examining how the fantastic filters of non-sexist language guidelines, and the struggle to establish non- the mythic, medieval and romantic, we will be in a position to speculate discriminatory language practices are also included in the study. on how fantasy’s various manifestations both tie us to the past and ENGL 2327 The Bible and reconstruct identity and society in the postmodern era. 3 credit hours ENGL 2364 The Modern Novella Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level A study of the influence of the Bible on English literature from Anglo- Saxon times to the present. Particular emphasis will be given to the King A course designed to introduce the student to a wide range of short James Bible (1611). Some attention will be paid to the ancient context which illustrate both the rich diversity and the fundamental unity and literary forms of the Jewish and Christian scriptures and to recent of concern which characterize the modern imagination and cultural theoretical approaches to the relationship of the Bible and literature. consciousness. ENGL 2328 The Catholic Tradition in Modern ENGL 2380 Literature of Atlantic Canada [ACST 2380] 3 credit hours 6 credit hours This course begins with the nineteenth-century Catholic revival, with Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level some attention to and . The main focus is the twentieth-century Catholic novel, including Evelyn An examination of the literature and literary background of Atlantic Waugh, , Muriel Spark, and David Lodge. Canada. Emphasis in the first semester is on the 19th and early 20th centuries; in the second semester it is on contemporary writing. 4 English (ENGL)

ENGL 2391 The Study of Short Fiction ENGL 2513 Introduction to Indigenous Literature 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level

This course is designed to introduce students to short fiction as well Students are introduced to contemporary Indigenous literatures of Turtle as to the analytical concepts necessary for its critical appreciation and Island, in English, through writing by Indigenous peoples in Canada (First judgment. Nations, Inuit, and Métis) and Native Americans in the U.S. Through the ENGL 2392 The Study of Narrative lens of Indigenous worldview and intellectual ways of knowing, class 3 credit hours discussion and analysis centers on social, political, historical, spiritual, Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level and environmental issues with an eye towards decolonization. ENGL 2520 Irish Folklore [IRST 2520] Students are introduced to the study of narrative English as well as to the 3 credit hours analytical concepts necessary for its critical appreciation and judgment. Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level ENGL 2393 The Study of Poetry 3 credit hours A comprehensive study of folklore in Ireland. All aspects of folklore will be Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level examined, with special emphasis on the storytelling, song, and folk drama traditions. Students are introduced to methods and problems in poetics and the ENGL 2537 Ireland in Revolution, 1890-1922 [IRST 2537] reading and analysis of for the purpose of preparing 3 credit hours students for advanced work. Students study and culture as a case study in anti-colonial ENGL 2441 The Irish Short Story [IRST 2441] revolution. Focusing on Ireland’s major revolutionaries and writers, 3 credit hours including Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, Constance Markievicz, Lady Students examine the short story as a major form of Irish writing, tracing Gregory, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce, students examine how and why its development from internationally read practitioners such as Joyce, colonized peoples resist, and what the long-term effects of colonialism, O’Connor and Lavin, to contemporary figures such as John McGahern, and its overthrow, might be. Anne Enright and Claire Keegan. ENGL 2538 Postcolonial Ireland – 1922 – Present [IRST 2538] ENGL 2461 Mi’kmaq Storytelling and Literature 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Students study Irish literature and culture as a case study in the pitfalls Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level of postcolonial independence. Students examine issues arising from the legacy of English colonial domination as well as the pre-eminence of Irish Students are introduced to Mi’kmaq literature and oral storytelling life, before and after independence, of the . tradition in order to examine how Mi’kmaq people and culture have ENGL 2800 Special Author,Special Subject endured, adapted and flourished. As the original inhabitants of the lands 6 credit hours now known as Canada’s Maritime provinces, the Mi’kmaq peoples are the Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level holders of a wealth of Indigenous knowledge. These stories, both oral and written, give evidence to the deep connections the Mi’kmaq have with this The subject matter of particular courses will be announced from time coastal land base, and exhibit their intimate knowledge of all creatures to time. These courses are designed to examine authors and topics not native to the area. dealt with in other 2000 level courses. ENGL 2463 Imagining the North in ENGL 2827 Special Author,Special Subject 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level ENGL 3302 Literary Theory I Students engage in an interdisciplinary exploration of the representation 3 credit hours of Canada as “true north” in literature and media. Beginning with Glenn Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Gould’s “The Idea of North” with emphasis on the mutual influence of the various genres through which Canadians imagine the north, including This course provides an introduction to the major issues, figures, and drama, fiction, historiography, and poetry.. The course includes selections theoretical approaches in the discipline of literary criticism. This section of Inuit literature written in English. covers the ancients through to nineteenth-century writers. ENGL 2511 Reading Film ENGL 3303 Literary Theory II 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level

Students are introduced to the techniques, critical approaches and This course provides an introduction to the major issues, figures, and fundamentals of film language (sounc, mis-en-scène, cinematography, theoretical approaches in the discipline of literary criticism. This section editing and narrative), used in the discipline of film studies to read, covers twentieth century through to contemporary writers. analyze, and interpret narrative films. English (ENGL) 5

ENGL 3307 The Poetics of the Archive [ACST 3307] ENGL 3347 1820-1865 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level

Students respond creatively and critically to archival materials, exploring A survey of major works of American literature from 1820 to the end the kinds of making (poiesis) that arise when we engage with research of the Civil War. Authors may include Dickinson, Douglass, Emerson, materials not only as texts and images but as physical objects in the Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman. This course, along with world. Topics include the archive as muse, material meaning, and digital American Literature 1865-1914, provides students with a sound historical humanities. There will be one class visit made to the Saint Mary’s understanding of this most formative period in American literature. University archives, and students are required to visit at least one other ENGL 3348 American Literature 1865-1914 archive in the community. 3 credit hours ENGL 3310 Classical Literature [CLAS 3310] Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level 3 credit hours Prerequisite: 6 credit hours of CLAS or ENGL courses A survey of major works of American literature from 1865 to the eve of World War I. Authors may include Cather, Chopin, Crane, DuBois, This course is a survey of the literature of ancient Greece and/or Rome in Dreiser, James, London, Twain and Wharton. This course, along with English translation. Course content will be organized either thematically, American Literature 1865-1914, provides students with a sound historical for example on women in Classical literature or metamorphosis, or by understanding of this most formative period in American literature. genre, for example on epic, tragedy, or comedy. The course is intended ENGL 3349 Literature in Eng 1350-1500 for students who have some background in and/or Classical 3 credit hours literature. Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level ENGL 3330 Irish Shame [IRST 3330] 3 credit hours This course provides an in-depth study of various aspects of late The history of Irish independence has been marked by endemic abuse medieval English literature, excluding Chaucer. Readings may cover of vulnerable communities, especially Irish women and children, but genres such as medieval romance, drama, hagiography and devotional also travellers and, more recently, immigrants and asylum seekers. What prose as well as works by Langland, the Gawain poet, Lydgate, Malory, the has Irish literature had to say about these issues? How might we use Wakefield dramatist, and Julian of Norwich. literature to understand Ireland’s legacy of abuse? ENGL 3351 American Fiction from 1950 to the Present ENGL 3331 History of Children’s Literature 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level A study of American fiction since World War II. Authors to be studied A survey of children’s literature to the end of the nineteenth century. are chosen partly because they interpret some important aspects of the The literature will be read and understood in its historical context. The American national experience during this period and partly because they emphasis will be on the works generally considered classics of children’s raise basic questions about the aesthetics of fiction. literature. ENGL 3361 in English: Selected Focus ENGL 3343 Cultural Studies 3 credit hours 3 credit hours ***TBA Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level ENGL 3367 Canlit: the 60s and 70s 3 credit hours This is an interdisciplinary course that explores culture and contexts Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level within which culture is produced, disseminated, and consumed. The course introduces students to some of the basic cultural studies theories A study of the emergence of “Canlit” in the 1960s and 1970s with and methodologies, like psychoanalysis, economics, sociology, but also emphasis on the development of cultural institutions. In addition to film and media studies, gay and lesbian theories, feminist, ethnic, and the literature produced in the period, including representative poems, popular-culture studies. plays, short stories and novels, the course will examine the influence ENGL 3344 Canadian Literature to 1920 of thematic criticism, regionalism, and nationalism on the creation of 3 credit hours Canadian canons. Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level ENGL 3375 Writing Fiction I 3 credit hours An introduction to the drama, fiction, prose and poetry written in Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level early Canadian literary history emphasizing the colonial and post- Confederation periods. Additional prerequisite: submission of samples of writing prior to ENGL 3345 Canadian Literature After 1920 registration and permission of Creative Writing Coordinator 3 credit hours ENGL 3376 Writing Fiction II Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level An introduction to the drama, fiction, prose and poetry written in Canada since 1920 studied in critical and historical context. Additional prerequisite: submission of samples of writing prior to registration and permission of Creative Writing Coordinator 6 English (ENGL)

ENGL 3381 Writing Poetry ENGL 3408 Drama and Society - Restoration to 18th Century 6 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level

Additional prerequisite: submission of samples of writing prior to This course gives particular attention to the comedy of manners and its registration and permission of Creative Writing Coordinator principal exponents such as Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve and Sheridan. ENGL 3382 Writing Plays Also studied are sentimental comedy, heroic and domestic tragedy, and 6 credit hours the ballad opera, as well as the way social and political development Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level affected the theatre. ENGL 3409 Drama and Society in the 19th Century Additional prerequisite: submission of samples of writing prior to 3 credit hours registration and permission of Creative Writing Coordinator Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level ENGL 3383 Writing Prose-Non Fiction 3 credit hours Students study drama and theatre in the Romantic era in relation Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level to changing political and social conditions. Topics covered include, melodrama, the influence of the actor-managers and the move towards Additional prerequisite: submission of samples of writing prior to , and the impact of European drama, particularly by Ibsen, on registration and permission of Creative Writing Coordinator Shaw, Pinero and other British dramatists. ENGL 3402 History of the English Language [LING 3402] ENGL 3410 Early 18th-Century Literature 6 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in English at the 1000 level

A survey of the development of the English language from its earliest Students examine English literature written during the Restoration period stages to the present. Representative texts are used from each period and early eighteenth century, with a focus on poetry and prose. Works so that students can acquire first-hand knowledge of the successive by authors such as John Dryden, Anne Finch, Samuel Pepys, Alexander changes in grammar (syntax, morphology, and phonology) and Pope, and Jonathan Swift are studied. vocabulary. ENGL 3411 Late 18th-Century Literature ENGL 3404 The Canterbury Tales 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in English at the 1000 level Prerequisite: Six (6) credit hours of ENGL Students examine English literature written during the late eighteenth This course is an introduction to the poet Geoffrey Chaucer with a century, with a focus on poetry and prose. Works by authors such as detailed study of The Canterbury Tales. The focus will be on reading Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, William Cowper, Thomas Gray, and Chaucer’s work in Middle English and on the literary, social and historical Samuel Johnson are studied. context in which it was produced. Students are not required to have any ENGL 3412 Restoration and 18th Century Literature prior knowledge of Middle English. 6 credit hours ENGL 3405 Chaucer: Troilus & Criseyde Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Six (6) credit hours of ENGL This course focuses on the various forms of English poetry and prose between 1660 and 1800. It includes poets such as Dryden, Finch, Pope, This course is an introduction to the poet Geoffrey Chaucer with a and Gray, and writers of prose such as Swift, Johnson, Burney and detailed study of Troilus and Criseyde. The focus will be on reading Boswell. Chaucer's poetry in Middle English and on the literary, social and ENGL 3415 The Eighteenth Century Novel historical context in which it was produced. 3 credit hours Note: This course will be offered in rotation with ENGL 3404; please see Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in English at the 1000 level the department handbook for offerings year-to-year; and Students are not required to have any prior knowledge of Middle English. Students examine the development of the in the eighteenth century. Works by authors such as Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, ENGL 3406 Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages Henry Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, and are studied. 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Six (6) credit hours of ENGL ENGL 3416 The Romantic Movement 6 credit hours Students examine the tradition of Arthurian literature and its Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level pervasiveness during the middle ages in Western , including themes such as chivalry, courtly love, imperialism and the grail quest. The This course studies the origins and development of the English Romantic focus is on medieval versions of Arthurian legends but will also take up movement. Major emphasis will be placed on the works of Blake, their adaptability to revisionist viewpoints of different periods and genres. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and Byron. Students are not required to have any prior knowledge of Middle English. English (ENGL) 7

ENGL 3419 English Poetry and Prose of the 16th Century ENGL 3446 Shakespeare III 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Twelve (12) credit hours in ENGL at the 2000 level or above. Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level

The course focuses on English poetry and prose written in the 16th The subject of this course is Shakespeare’s tragedies. century, and on the cultural and social context within which this literature ENGL 3447 Shakespeare's Contemporaries was produced. Some writers that may be studied include More, Wyatt, 3 credit hours Surrey, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Lyly, Sidney, Spenser, Nashe, Whitney, Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Layer, Stuart and Queen Elizabeth I. ENGL 3421 English Poetry and Prose of the 17th Century This course studies selected plays by such writers as Kyd, Marlowe, 3 credit hours Dekker, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Middleton, Marston, and Prerequisite: Twelve (12) credit hours in ENGL at the 2000 level or above. Heywood. ENGL 3448 Irish Poetry and the Problem of Sex, 1890 – The course focuses on English poetry and prose written in the 17th Present [IRST 3448] century, and on the cultural and social context within which this literature 3 credit hours was produced. Some of the writers that may be studied include Donne, Drawing on the theoretical work of Michel Foucault, as well as queer Jonson, Marvell, Milton, Traherne, Herbert, Dryden, Florio, Bacon, Burton, theory and psychoanalysis, students use Irish poetry, from W.B. Yeats to Browne, Speght and Wroth. Paula Meehan, as a lens to study the ways Irish writers have resisted and ENGL 3428 20th Century Poetry reframed official discourses about Irish sex and sexualities. 6 credit hours ENGL 3451 British Drama since 1956 Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level 3 credit hours A study of 20th century poetry in English. British, American and Canadian Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level poetry of the Modernist period and the post-World War II period is given The “overnight revolution” in British Theatre in 1956 produced successive special emphasis. waves of outstanding dramatists who will be studied in the course, ENGL 3429 American Literature 1914-1950 including Osborne, Pinter, Arden, Bond, Stoppard, Ayckbourn and Shaffer. 3 credit hours The work of three major companies which helped to promote them, the Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre Company, will also be featured. A study of American literature from the turn of the twentieth century until just after the Second World War. Writers studied may include Willa Cather, ENGL 3453 Irish Drama in the 20th Century [IRST 3453] , Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wallace Stevens 3 credit hours and Langston Hughes. Topics covered include the War and its Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level aftermath, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Great Depression. This course studies Irish drama from the founding of the Irish National ENGL 3435 20th Century European Drama Theatre society in 1903 up to the present time, including the works of 3 credit hours Yeats, Hyde, Lady Gregory, Synge, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett. Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level ENGL 3458 History and Theory of the Novel I A study of the principal European dramatists and theatre movements in 3 credit hours the present century with emphasis on the ones that have most influenced Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level drama written in English. Reference is made to works by such dramatists This course will serve as an introduction to the critical reading of the as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett and Ionesco. novel. We will study the historical, cultural, and philosophical climate ENGL 3437 Canadian Drama that allowed for the emergence of the novel in the eighteenth century 3 credit hours and will track the changes in narrative style, and the implications of Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level these changes, from realism to to postmodernism to post- colonialism. History and Theory of the Novel I will consider the novel in A course in Canadian drama and theatre history with an emphasis on the eighteenth and nineteenth century. audience and performance using collaborative and collective study methods. The course covers published plays, radio and television drama, ENGL 3459 History and Theory of the Novel II and live performance. 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level ENGL 3444 Shakespeare I 3 credit hours This course will serve as an introduction to the critical reading of the Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level novel. We will study the historical, cultural, and philosophical climate that allowed for the emergence of the novel in the eighteenth century The subject of this course is Shakespeare’s comedies and romances. and will track the changes in narrative style, and the implications of ENGL 3445 Shakespeare II these changes, from realism to modernism to postmodernism to post- 3 credit hours colonialism. History and Theory of the Novel II will consider the novel Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level from the twentieth century to the contemporary period.

The subject of this course is Shakespeare’s history plays and problem plays. 8 English (ENGL)

ENGL 3460 British Literature, 1900-1945 ENGL 3471 Contemporary Canadian Fiction 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level

The course surveys British literature from the beginning of the twentieth An advanced course in Canadian fiction produced in the 1970s, 1980s, century to the end of the Second World War, and includes works of poetry, and 1990s that gives students an opportunity to consider selected novels prose, fiction, and drama. Attention will be paid to the social, cultural, and and short stories in some depth. Texts are considered within the context historical contexts of the literature, with reference to such major events of Canadian literary criticism, history, and theory. as the two world wars and the depression. Authors studied may include ENGL 3472 Contemporary Canadian Poetry , Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Graham 3 credit hours Greene, and W.H. Auden. Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level ENGL 3461 British Literature 1945-2000 3 credit hours An advanced course that considers questions of genre and form in Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level Canadian poetry after 1965. Selected collections of poetry are studied within the context of Canadian literary criticism, history, and theory. The course surveys British literature from the end of the second world Specific topics covered include the long poem, the lyric and visual poetry. war to the conclusion of the twentieth century, and includes works of ENGL 3481 The Nineteenth Century British Novel I poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. Attention will be paid to the social, 3 credit hours cultural, and historical contexts of the literature, with reference to topics Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level such as the end of the British empire, the and its aftermath, and the increasing importance of the electronic media. Authors studied may Students study the British novel in the first half of the nineteenth century, include , Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, , Margaret focusing on writers such as Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Drabble, and Ian McEwan. William Makepeace Thackeray, , the early Charles ENGL 3462 Post 1945 Black Brit Writing Dickens and George Eliot. Attention will be paid to the style and narrative 3 credit hours technique of the novels studied, to their place in the cultural history of the Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level period, and to their relationship to their social and historical contexts. ENGL 3482 The Nineteenth Century British Novel II Students are introduced to post-1945 black British and Caribbean 3 credit hours literatures. Through the work of key thinkers read alongside a selection of Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level generically diverse texts (fiction, film, poetry), students will examine the historical, political, and aesthetic debates that have shaped the field of Students study the British novel from the mid-Victorian period to the fin- Black British studies. Writers and filmmakers investigated may include: de-siècle, focusing on writers such as the later Charles Dickens, Wilkie Sam Selvon, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Hanif Kureishi, Bernardine Evaristo, Collins, George Eliot, , Arthur Conan Doyle, R.L. Stevenson, Caryl Phillips, Zadie Smith, John Akomfrah, and the Black Audio Film and Henry James. Attention will be paid to the style and Collective. narrative technique of the novels studied, to their place in the cultural ENGL 3463 Contemporary British Writing history of the period, and to their relationship to their social and historical 3 credit hours contexts. Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level ENGL 3483 Victorian Poetry and Prose I 3 credit hours Students examine a range of literary production (fiction, poetry, drama Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level and film), and explore the political and aesthetic debates that shape twenty-first-century British literature and culture. Critical debates and This course focuses on the poetry and prose of the early Victorian period, issues investigated might include: transnational and cosmopolitan including poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, , identities; national identities in the context of devolution and the and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and prose writers such as and ; realism and its aesthetic limits; technology, science and . Attention will be paid to the way that Victorian poetry ecological futures; religious fundamentalism and terrorism; reinventions develops out of the Romantic Movement, and to the relationship between of historical, speculative and crime genres. literature and the political and social context, focusing on topics like ENGL 3470 Contemporary Novel reform and the . 3 credit hours ENGL 3484 Victorian Poetry and Prose II Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level From apocalyptic preoccupations, to environmental catastrophe, to mobile populations, to late capitalism and neo-, to questions This course focuses on the poetry and prose of the later Victorian period, of the non- discourse, to the impact of globalization on including poets such as , , and Gerard literature and the understanding of the literary, this course will track the Manley Hopkins, and prose writers such as John Henry Newman, Charles concerns and form of twentieth-first century novel in the first decades. Darwin, Matthew Arnold, , and Oscar Wilde. Attention will be might include: Chan Koonchung; Cormac McCarthy; Kazuo paid to the aesthetic movement, the definition of culture, and the crisis of Ishiguro, Chika Unigwe, Aravind Adiga, , Amitav Ghosh. religious faith. English (ENGL) 9

ENGL 3500 Contemporary Canadian Irish Prose [IRST 3500] ENGL 3791 Literatures of the Black Atlantic [ACST 3791] 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: six (6) credit hours in ENGL, IRST or HIST Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level

This course examines the work of Canadian authors who have drawn on Students examine transnational literatures from African, Caribbean, Ireland, Irish themes or the Irish in Canada in their writings, and the work European and North American contexts with a focus on the of Irish-born authors living in Canada whose works contain significant multidirectional networks and the distinctive poetics of water that Canadian content. Following an overview of the range of earlier Canadian constitute the historical and literary formation of the black Atlantic. Irish writings, students will read and discuss a selection of recent fiction Writers examined may include; Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, Claude and non-fiction texts by authors such as Charles Foran, , McKay, James Baldwin, Derek Walcott, Dionne Brand, Lawrence Hill, , Emma Donoghue, and John Moss. Bernardine Evaristo and Caryl Phillips. ENGL 3511 Film and the City ENGL 3800 Special Author,Special Subject 3 credit hours 6 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 2000 level. Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level

Students will explore material and conceptual connections between The subject matter of particular courses will be announced from time film and the city–two of the most pervasive influences on the twentieth to time. These courses are designed to examine at an advanced level and twenty-first centuries. Guided by key theorists of city space and authors and topics not dealt with in other 3000-level courses. cinema, students will pursue textual analysis of films that articulate ENGL 3826 Selected Topics in Atlantic Canada Studies II social, cultural, spatial, and temporal concerns representative of urban 3 credit hours lived experiences. Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level ENGL 3512 Contemporary Canadian Film and Television 3 credit hours The subject matter of particular courses will be announced from time to Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 2000 level time. These special half-credit courses provide the opportunity to study a particular author or subject in depth and detail. They are designed to Students will critique foundational concepts, policies, and practices examine at an advanced level authors and topics not dealt with in other considered important to contemporary Canadian film and television since 3000-level courses or to allow for a different approach to the study of 1980, through the discussion and analysis of film and television texts. authors and/or topics already covered in other courses.

ENGL 3518 Canadian Nature Writing STUDENTS SHOULD NORMALLY HAVE COMPLETED NINE(9) CREDIT 3 credit hours HOURS IN ENGLISH AT THE 2000 OR 3000 LEVEL BEFORE TAKING 4000 Prerequisite: Nine (9) credit hours in English at the 2000 level or above LEVEL ENGLISH COURSES

A course in the wide variety of "nature writing" by Canadian authors, ENGL 4405 Advanced Studies in including poetry, narrative and descriptive non-fiction (wilderness 3 credit hours writings, agricultural accounts, naturalists’ essays), and prose of Prerequisite: One of ENGL 3404, 3405, 3406, or permission of the environmental and ecological concern. Authors studied could range from instructor. Mi'kmaw story-tellers, Harry Thurston, and Don McKay to Mina Hubbard, Don Gayton, and Sharon Butala. The emphasis in this course may include Theories of Authorship and ENGL 3521 North American Indigenous Literature: United States Reading, Urban Literature, or the Heroic and the Monstrous. Readings 3 credit hours may cover genres such as medieval romance, drama, or hagiography Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level as well as works by Langland, Gower, Lydgate, Hoccleve, the Wakefield dramatist, and Julian of Norwich. Students are introduced to the literature of the Indigenous peoples of ENGL 4417 Feminist Literary Theory [WMST 4417] North America. Beginning with the oral creationary stories and moving 3 credit hours into written works from the 19th–21st centuries, students examine the This course will engage students in a study of feminist literary theory. distinct styles and central themes found in contemporary writing by Some of the most influential theorists in this area will be analyzed as Native authors in the United States. Students are expected to identify the well as the dominant cultural systems to which they have responded. unique complexities that emerge in the literature, such as issues of voice, Students will not be required to have any prior knowledge of the field. gender, experience, critical theory, racism, Indigenous intellectualism, and identity. ENGL 4422 Studies in Renaissance Love Poetry 3 credit hours ENGL 3522 North American Indigenous Literature: Canada The course focuses on a representative selection of Renaissance love 3 credit hours poetry in its cultural, social and philosophical contexts. It examines the Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000 level poetic strategies used to explore the meaning and value of love in its Students study the works by First Nation, Inuit and Metis writers in relation to sexuality and gender. Special attention will be given to the Canada, and examine the issues of colonialism, voice, resistance and sonnet form, its relationship to the courtly love tradition and the cult of empowerment, as well as culture, spirituality and intellectual tradition as the "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I, but other poetic genres will be studied as key themes. Along with exploring the familiar genres of Western writing well. Intellectual and thematic contexts will be constructed from various – autobiography, poetry, short stories, drama, and the novel students classical and Italian texts, such as Plato's --, the poems of address unique approaches to literature as developed by the authors, as Catullus and Sappho and Petrarch's sonnets. Writers studied may include well as critical approaches that originate from Indigenous communities. Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Cavendish, Wroth, and Marvell. 10 English (ENGL)

ENGL 4423 John Donne and the Literary Traditions of the Renaissance ENGL 4455 The Modern Novel 3 credit hours 3 credit hours This course will focus on the work of John Donne, an influential early 17th A close critical analysis of representative works of a number of prominent c. English writer, the founder of the so-called "metaphysical" school of late 19th and 20th century novelists in the light of certain literary, cultural, style. Through his work, students will become acquainted with various socio-political and philosophic tendencies which have exercised a social and cultural contexts of the Renaissance. Readings will include decisive influence in the formation of the modern imagination. selections from Donne's devotional and love poems, elegies, verse ENGL 4456 The Postmodern Novel epistles, sermons and other prose. Also, Donne's work will be compared 3 credit hours to the work of other Renaissance writers, and placed within the context of This course focuses on some of the major novelists of the second half of the European , as represented in visual art and literature. the twentieth century in the context of the cultural and political climate ENGL 4424 : Advanced Study that has given rise to this fiction and the term postmodernism. 3 credit hours ENGL 4457 Advanced Studies in American Literature The subject of the course will vary from year to year. It allows the 3 credit hours opportunity to explore an aspect of Renaissance literature in more depth This advanced course in American literature offers intensive treatment of than is possible in other courses. The following are some examples authors, genres, and themes addressed at the intermediate level. Possible of possible topics: a single major author or group of authors from the topics in the course may include: (1) intensive study of single authors period (e.g. Spenser, Bacon, More); a literary movement or form (e.g. the in relation to historical trends in literary criticism (‘reception history’); Metaphysical school of poetry; the Cavalier school of poetry; the epic; the (2) intensive exploration of particular currents in the development of a sermon; a social or cultural issue (e.g. "the woman issue"; literature and specific genres; (3) concept-based courses; or (4) broad-based ‘cultural the institution of the Elizabethan or Jacobean Court); or a close study of studies’ approaches to American literature. one of the major literary works of Renaissance era (The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, The Anatomy of Melancholy). ENGL 4464 Postcolonial Literature: Special Topics 3 credit hours ENGL 4425 Advanced Studies in 18th - Century and Romantic This course examines the literatures of specific postcolonial regions. Literature These regions may include Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, New Zealand, 3 credit hours Australia and South Asia. This course explores an aspect of Eighteenth-Century or Romantic literature in more depth than is possible in other courses. The following ENGL 4465 Indigenous Literature Seminar are examples of possible topics: a single major author or group of 3 credit hours authors from either or both periods (e.g. Dryden, Pope, Blake, Hemans); In addition to studying theories of race and indigeneity, students a literary movement or form (e.g. verse satire or the literature of explore representative works by Indigenous authors in depth and to sensibility); a social or cultural issue (e.g. as a reaction to conduct original research on Indigenous literatures. Students explore Enlightenment, secularization); or close study of a major work (e.g. "The the continuity of oral and written traditions in the literary, cultural, and Prelude") or of work in a narrowly-defined historical period (e.g. the 1790s material contexts in which the literature is written, spoken, and read. poetry of rebellion). ENGL 4466 Representations of Indigenous Womanhood ENGL 4426 Advanced Studies in Canadian Literature 3 credit hours 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three (3) credit hours in ENGL at the 1000-level Students study a particular author, genre, theme, and/or movement in Students explore writings and cultural productions (including biography, Canadian Literature intensively. While the topics will vary, the course fiction, poetry, theater, media, and film) by and about Indigenous women highlights the literature, cultural, and material conditions in which of North America. This group has experienced oppression and dislocation Canadian literature is produced and received. from land, communities, spirituality, and traditional roles as a result of ENGL 4427 Language, Gender, and Power [LING 3427,WMST 4427] European colonization. Students examine how such dislocations and 3 credit hours acts of oppression arose from creation and perpetuation within colonizer This course examines the role of language and its use in constructing literature and media productions of inaccurate and stereotypical images. and negotiating social positions of men and women and by men and ENGL 4470 The Rise and Fall of the Printed Book women. It compares discourse strategies used by powerful/powerless 3 credit hours speakers and gender-associated discourse strategies. It examines This course focuses on the history of the printed book and examines the dialect and generic features used in constructing and maintaining social phenomenon of mass literacy and its implications in the development of identities and differences. different types of literature. ENGL 4431 The Modern Irish Novel [IRST 4431] ENGL 4475 Writing Fiction-Advanced 3 credit hours 6 credit hours This course will involve a study of the modern Irish novel, placing each Prerequisite: written permission of Creative Writing Coordinator. work in its social and cultural context. It may include works by James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen and/or Samuel Beckett, as well as a selection of A course designed for students with some experience in writing fiction. contemporary novels by writers like Anne Enright and John Banville. Many aspects of the writer’s craft, from the germination of a story to the polishing of a final draft, will be explored in workshops. Students who have not completed either ENGL 3375 or 3376 will be asked to submit a sample portfolio of their work before registration. English (ENGL) 11

ENGL 4477 Writing Poetry-Advanced ENGL 4552 Honours Senimar 3 credit hours 6 credit hours Prerequisite: ENGL 3381 or, prior to registration, submission of portfolio Topics chosen will be of a general nature in order to permit the to creative writing coordinator. representation of a diversity of historical periods, genres, and the various literary traditions of the English-speaking world. Students will be required An advanced creative writing course, which provides students with to present papers on aspects of the chosen topic and members of the opportunities to develop their craft beyond its beginning stages and Department of English Language and Literature will conduct seminars in to have their poems discussed in workshops. The course may include their areas of expertise. emphasis on poem sequences, long poems, and poets’ poetics, including their prose commentaries on subjects ranging from sources of inspiration ENGL 4555 Honours Seminar to arguments about technique. 3 credit hours Topics chosen will be of a general nature in order to permit the ENGL 4485 – Advanced Study representation of a diversity of historical periods, genres, and the various 3 credit hours literary traditions of the English-speaking world. Students will be required The subject of the course will vary from year to year. It allows the to present papers on aspects of the chosen topic and members of the opportunity to explore an aspect of Victorian literature in more depth than Department of English Language and Literature will conduct seminars in is possible in other courses. The following are some examples of possible their areas of expertise. topics: a single major author or group of authors from the period (e.g., Charles Dickens or the Brontës); a literary movement or form (e.g., the ENGL 4800 Special Author,Special Subject aesthetic movement or the ); a social or cultural issue 6 credit hours (e.g., the “woman question” or industrialism in literature); or the literature Prerequisite: enrolment in the English honours program or special of a narrowly defined historical period (e.g., the novel in the 1840’s or the recommendation of the Department. literature of the fin de siècle). These courses provide the opportunity to study a particular author ENGL 4488 The Post 1945 British Novel in considerable depth and detail, and requires some measure of 3 credit hours independence and initiative in the student. Tutorials by arrangement with Students examine the British novel from the end of the Second World supervisor. 2 semesters War to the late twentieth century. Topics covered include realism, ENGL 4827 Special Author,Special Subject postmodernism, and the emergence of new female and postcolonial 3 credit hours voices. Writers studied may include Muriel Spark, John Fowles, David These courses provide the opportunity to study a particular author, Lodge, and V.S. Naipaul. subject, or period in considerable depth and detail and will require some ENGL 4493 Doing Discourse Analysis [LING 4493] measure of independence and initiative in the student. 3 credit hours Prerequisite: At least twelve (12) credit hours in English or Linguistics (or permission of the instructor)

The focus is on learning how to do discourse analysis. We will focus on developing skills in the analysis of talk and text using models drawn from linguistics, structuralism and semiotics. The course will explicitly develop skills in analyzing discourse functions as configurations of interaction, experience and organization meaning. ENGL 4494 Approaches to Discourse Analysis [LING 4494] 3 credit hours Prerequisite: At least twelve (12) credit hours in English or Linguistics (or permission of the instructor)

Linguistic, structural, post-structural, and semiotic perspectives on discourse analysis are addressed through reading and discussion of key works by authors of “landmark” texts such as R. Jakobson, J. L. Austin, H. P. Grice, etc. The goals of the course are to (a) familiarize students with some of the “landmark” texts and perspectives on discourse analysis and (b) to develop abilities to develop abilities to relate analyses to cultural and situationally relevant contexts. ENGL 4511 Coll Memory & Visual Culture 3 credit hours This advanced seminar examines how visual artifacts record, organize, and build narratives and cultures of collective memory (for example, that of nations, regions, and identities). The seminar will include field trips to local places of memory (memorials, museums, and archives), city walks of Halifax in the tradition of the Surrealists and Situationists, the study of home movies and documentary film, national television, and digital image memory archives such as blogs, YouTube, and Flickr.